"Incompleteness Theory" Winner of the Nommo Awards 2020 for Best Novella!
Out 4th of June 2019.
An elderly woman in early 22nd century Lagos is called in to help test the artificial intelligence built from her genius mother’s mind, but all is not as it seems in the Nommo-award winning story, “The Regression Test”.
Exiled from Earth for a crime of passion, a young man must learn to survive a barely habitable prison planet and come to peace with his past in “Polaris”.
“Wednesday’s Story”, nominated for the 2018 Caine Prize, is at once a retelling of nursery rhymes and folklore and a meta-fictional meditation on the mechanics, art and power of storytelling.
In the novella “Incompleteness Theories”, an international team, led by a Nigerian physicist, try to invent teleportation technology with haunting, unforeseen results.
From the bustling streets of Lagos to the icy moons of Jupiter, this debut collection of twenty stories from the vivid imagination of the award-winning Wole Talabi explores what it means to be human in a world of accelerating technology, diverse beliefs, and unlimited potential, from a uniquely Nigerian perspective.
Incomplete Solutions
‘These are amazing narratives which show assiduous reflection on science, emotion, mysticism and philosophy. With such careful consideration, impeccable science and interesting characters, each story is prose that gently tickles the forebrain. Recommended.’ Tade Thompson, Nommo Award-Winning Author of Rosewater and The Murders Of Molly Southbourne
‘Fierce and urgent - a remarkable new voice.’ Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City and The Shining Girls
‘Wole Talabi mixes literary skill with speculative SF abilities to make him one of the spearheads of the African revolution in speculative writing.’ Geoff Ryman, Nebula Award-Winning Author of The Child Garden, Was, and Air
‘A wonderfully eclectic showpiece of hard science fiction and fascinating speculation. The stories in this collection will blow your mind.’ Tendai Huchu, Author of The Hairdresser of Harare and The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician
'There’s much to recommend in this collection, particularly in its long-form pieces. Incomplete Solutions provides a varied and impressive showcase for a writer who is hopefully still near the start of his career, and a set of stories that centre Nigerian experiences in science fiction and fantasy spaces that are still all too often white-dominated. Above all, however, this is a book to be read because it’s enjoyable: from the space opera of “Drift-Flux” to the slipstream fable of “Wednesday’s Story,” Talabi’s worlds are diverting, thought-provoking, and never quite go where one expects them to. And, if you need more once you’ve finished, there’s even some story notes. What more could you ask for?' Adry Joy for Strange Horizons.
